How will the Supreme Court's Health Care Reform ruling ...

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SCOTUS liveblog seems to think it survives as a tax.

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Just goes to show you can't expect the court to fight Congress's battles for it.

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Wait, it was 5-4 after all, and faux moderate Kennedy voted against?

No, Roberts voted to uphold it.

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The only good news for Romney is that he can campaign against the mandate acting as a tax.

At which point Obama can point out that this is exactly how it works in Massachusetts.

To which he would reply: I didn't raise taxes in the middle of the worst recession in recent history.

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The only good news for Romney is that he can campaign against the mandate acting as a tax.

At which point Obama can point out that this is exactly how it works in Massachusetts.

To which he would reply: I didn't raise taxes in the middle of the worst recession in recent history.

The recession ended in June 2009. Obama signed the bill in March 2010.

Fine, he'll use a term like "economic slowdown". Semantics don't change the differences in circumstances.

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For a little bit of a change of pace, all of the deleted tweets of politicians are here: http://politwoops.sunlightfoundation.com/

There's quite a bit of hilarious rejoicing in there from the 10 minute period where everyone thought it was overturned.